Gareth Bale Close To Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo? Dream On

While it is understandable that Wales boss Brian Flynn likes to see Gareth Bale become as good as Lionel Messi, it made him look like a mad man in the process. Messi is a once-in-a-generation footballer.

There will be endless debates of who is superior, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. The numbers and statistics support Lionel Messi while the overall perception of Ronaldo is that he is the more complete footballer.

Well, as long as human beings are driven by emotions and personal preference, I don’t think we will reach an accord. I suspect if Messi was a Merengue and Ronaldo a Culé the supporters of both Barcelona and Madrid would have a different opinion of these two supremely gifted footballers.

The very least we can agree on is that the both of them are above the rest, maybe Arjen Robben deserves to be put in that bracket.

I am not above having a personal preference thus my pick would be—as expected—Lionel Messi. Even if I would argue numbers and statistics I suspect I’d still be accused of bias.

Still, I read a comment which suggested that Gareth Bale is close to Cristiano Ronaldo, so I decided to write an article to disprove this ridiculous idea. I’m not slamming the opinion of my fellow community member, it’s just more convenient to write an article as opposed to one very long comment.

The thesis goes a little like this: “in the last two months I have seen better finishing from Bale, better runs on the wing and definitely better one-touch passing with Van der Vaart.”

Well, in the last two months Gareth Bale scored seven goals (in all competitions).